Library 2000: The Changing Library Environment – A Needs‐based Service

Abstract

Analyses both the impact of social change and the contribution that the library can make to personal and social development within a changing environment. Notes that the problem of increasingly centralised resources can be countered by the proactive decentralisation of delivery. Concludes that frugality of resources combined with increases in cultural quantity means that the librarian of the future will need to operate the service as a needs‐based access point to the global whole.

Citation

Smith, J. (1990), "Library 2000: The Changing Library Environment – A Needs‐based Service", New Library World, Vol. 91 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000002383